The Fourth Assessment is broken down into nine technical reports on the following topics:

Agriculture

Biodiversity and habitat

Energy

Forests and wildlife

Governance

Ocean and coast

Projects, datasets and tools

Public health

Water

The technical reports were distilled into nine regional reports and three community reports that support climate action by providing an overview of climate-related risks and adaptation strategies tailored to specific regions and themes.

The regional reports cover:

North Coast Region

Sacramento Valley Region

San Francisco Bay Area Region

Sierra Nevada Region

San Joaquin Valley Region

Central Coast Region

Los Angeles Region

Inland South Region

San Diego Region

The community reports focus on:

The ocean and coast

Tribal communities

Climate justice

All research contributing to the Fourth Assessment was peer-reviewed.

UC Cooperative Extension ecosystem sciences specialist Ted Grantham – who works in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley – is the lead author of the 80-page North Coast Region Report. Among the public events surrounding the release of the Fourth Assessment is the California Adaptation Forum, Aug. 27-29 in Sacramento. For more information, see http://www.californiaadaptationforum.org/. Grantham is a speaker at the forum.

Dan Stark, staff research associate for Humboldt and Del Norte counties, contributed to the pest section of Fuel Treatment for Forest Resilience and Climate Mitigation: A Critical Review for Coniferous Forests of California.